The Art of Seduction: An Indispensible Primer on the Ultimate Form of Power
Written by Robert Greene
Narrated by Jeff David
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Robert Greene
Robert Greene is the author of three bestselling books: The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War. He attended U.C. Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a degree in classical studies. He has worked in New York as an editor and writer at several magazines, including Esquire, and in Hollywood as a story developer and writer. Greene has lived in London, Paris, and Barcelona; he speaks several languages and has worked as a translator. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Reviews for The Art of Seduction
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5What a tedious (audio) book this was.
To sum up:
1) Science?
Nope. Lots of anecdotes and verbs on imperative mood: "do this", "do that".
Is there a method explaining how to do the things this sociopath commands people to do? Of course not.
2) Boring as phuck!
I could barely force myself to finish this audio book. By the way, this is the abridged version of the book. If the author rambles on for hours and I could barely finish it I can only imagine the effort it would take to go through the unabridged version.
3) For sociopaths, by a sociopath
You could argue that no those are not guidelines for a sociapath, it's only figure of speech and he uses the anecdotes and examples in order to make his point and prevent you from being a victim of the many types of seducers portrayed in the book.
But then again, he portrays introversion, shyness, innocence as characteristics of the weak and things that the "seducer" should prey upon.
The narrator chooses a tone of voice that is disgusting, sadistic at times, as if he wanted to portray the pleasure you should feel by manipulating and deceiving other people.
There are lots of people who operate in life in this deceitful way. I've had to deal with a few myself.
They're called sociopaths, not seducers.
The 48 Laws of Power follow the same logic. Deceive, manipulate, dominate, don't care for anyone but yourself.
Great books if you basically want to confirm how disturbed the human mind can be.5 people found this helpful
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I give this book 3 stars because it is a solid collection of thoughts by other people - but it is so dry and poorly written. I've read countless non-fiction books and it is hard to bore me to tears -- but this book manages to do just that. I should say, though, that there are some really useful anecdotes. I thought some of the background on Casanova particularly interesting.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Can we get this man to read the entire book? Thank you. His voice matches the seductive material. Favorite audiobook I've ever heard.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Book felt like it skipped a lil in chapters but overall was a good read
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Its a book to improve your skills!! Really you have to lisen it!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow this book is amazing and it provides more value when you implement the practices that are told in this book, they truly do work!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very good listen and kept you wanting to hear more
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Solid book. Could do without making the reader feel like a psychopath with some of the terminology but what it presents is a guide to basically a guide to imprinting your memory into a person's mind through tactics instead of leaving it to chance or improvisation. The main take away is the experience the person has with you, tension and mystery. You want to essentially create a character that this person would love based on the information you've gathered from getting to know them while maintaining an air of mystery. Become that character and using your natural seductive traits and develop many associations that link back to you in the person's mind.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is very insightful on the inner workings of people. The book mention Freud a lot. His views on the psychology of people is relatively accurate, however, his reasonings for the psychology has been thrown out by most of modern psychology over the years.
Personally, I’m not a fan of the hunter and prey analogy used throughout the book. That being said, take these words and utilize them to create relationships, not to just manipulate. “We are all people looking to connect and be heard.” -Marley Gregory1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautifully, practically
put together piece of work... my forever guide... love it..1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm not rating the book. I'm rating the audiobook itself. There's a lot of fails in the audio, at least 5, when the sentence doesn't end.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greene's "The Art of Seduction" is not really a self-help or instruction book. More than anything else, it is a sweeping overview of various historical figures and fictional characters who excelled at seduction, along with Greene's attempts to distill unifying principles and themes from these experiences. Greene also likes to use archetypes to classify both types of seducer and types of people who may be targets of seduction.The book is most enjoyable as a sort of whirlwind tour through various historical and fictional scenes, which can be enjoyable to read about individually, in the way of very short stories.The book largely fails as instruction. There are a few reasons for this, but the main one is that the principles are often contradictory or mutually exclusive (for example, paying a great deal of attention to the other person vs. leaving them hanging and wanting more), and many people and characters in Greene's examples succeed despite violating various principles he sets out. It seems that everything depends on the particularities of the the seducer, the seduced, and the situation. Well, okay, that shouldn't be surprising. But it raises the question of what the book is for. After all, there is little difference between feeling one's way and selecting from a vast menu of different approaches (which have to be customized to oneself anyway) and simply building one's own approach from scratch.The other flaw in the book is that the examples are from past times, ranging from ancient Egypt up through the days of Elvis and Andy Warhol. But dating and culture have changed a lot since the mid-1900s, particularly with the rise of the internet. Greene asserts his principles are timeless, and I can see his point- but for that very reason, they lack the detail and specificity that would make them easier to apply in a modern context.As a person who enjoys history books, I found Greene's book enjoyable enough, but it would not be high on my list of recommendations for a person who wants to personally learn how to be more seductive or charming.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For my love life it awesome and a good one
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book, Robert Greens never disappoints in ensuring that we understand human nature, it effect and how we can use it to our advantage.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ends a little too abruptly, but the strategies were thoroughly explained
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It seems to be The Machiavelli book for seduction, but as it states few old famous stories about kings, queens and writers, it has a taste of a movies full with thrill. After all it still looking more like a war and manipulation than real life seduction
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5W book love it, I still get no females help me
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing, powerful, insightful.. articulated very well. Good book for nerds.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Changed my mind, I thought it was a great book, but the content may be somewhat questionable after all.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thank you for sharing this knowledge with the masses
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a incredible book to keep your lovers and admirers on toes, I am social media influencer and this have helped me a lot to help my fans go crazy about me
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In this journey of life all manner of tools for survival must be collected but not all must be used...This book,an Interesting tool for life ... hopefully we seduce or be seduced by pipo who want to make us better and leave us in better situations. If at all there is such.... kikikiki,I enjoyed this audio book.cheers to life.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5is this the concise version of the book? i want to order the paper copy of both but i want to know which one to get first
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I don’t want it to end
So interesting ❤️ thank you - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing book... Had a self reflection through these words. ❤️
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read and heard this book years ago, it was great! Thinking of going back to freshen up.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great book/ audiobook! It is breathtaking and quite dangerous. Any one who could master the lessons by Robert Green will surely gain a lot of advantages/ power! Definitely a must read!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The arts of seduction, just like the title says. 10/10
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent read real eye-opener I enjoyed the script immensely.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty Nice, had some very good golden nuggets, I enjoyed the book overall, Recommended ❤